
MORE than 230,000 people have signed up to Zara Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn’s new left-wing political party in less than 24 hours, making it more popular than Reform and the Tories.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK currently has 229,440 members, according to the party’s website’s tracker, while the Conservatives stood at 131,680 members as of November — the most recent figure available.
The new Your Party grouping, launched on Thursday by the former Labour leader Mr Corbyn and Coventry MP Ms Sultana, has already received a groundswell of support.
Officials said the moniker is an interim, kick-starting a democratic process to let supporters decide on the party’s final name.
Speaking during a visit to a bin strike picket line in Birmingham, Mr Corbyn told journalists: “The launch is Yourparty.uk and so far, as of the last minute or two, 175,000 people had signed up for it, which is enormous.”
As he finished answering questions from reporters, he was told the number had risen again.
“Another 15,000 have signed while we were talking,” he added, bringing the total to 190,000.
Not long after, Ms Sultana confirmed the figure had climbed to 230,000.
“That’s more than Reform’s membership,” she wrote on X.
“Nigel Farage, Zia Yusuf, Richard Tice, Lee Anderson ... Your boys are taking one hell of a beating. Labour, you’re next.”
Labour’s membership was around 309,000 in February, down 11.4 per cent from the 348,500 in July last year, according to latest figures from the party’s governing body.
Asked how the new party would respond to situations like the Birmingham bin strike if it came to power, Mr Corbyn said: “We would look obviously at the situation of Birmingham city finances but insist that no worker’s wages go down and you restructure the finances accordingly.”
He dismissed suggestions that the party launch had been disorganised. “It’s not messy at all. It’s a totally coherent approach,” he said.
“It’s democratic, it’s grassroots and it’s open.”
He also said that he and Ms Sultana are “working very well together.”
Campaign group Majority called Thursday’s announcement “a watershed moment in British politics.”
“Britain should be run in the interests of the people who do the work,” said Majority leader Jamie Driscoll today.
“Let’s have public services that serve the public good, not private profit.
“Let’s have a politics based on true patriotism — building a country that provides security, freedom and opportunity for everyone.”